{"id":2364,"date":"2012-05-11T23:12:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T03:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2012-05-12T11:57:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T15:57:33","slug":"r-i-p-carroll-shelby-one-of-the-greatest-automot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/r-i-p-carroll-shelby-one-of-the-greatest-automot\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Carroll Shelby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>R.I.P. Carroll Shelby, one of the greatest automotive minds in history, and a true American icon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att\">\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/dallas\/story\/_\/id\/7920192\/carroll-shelby-legendary-racer-car-designer-dead-89\" target=\"_blank\">Legendary racer, car designer Shelby dies at 89<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-img\" style=\"float:left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/dallas\/story\/_\/id\/7920192\/carroll-shelby-legendary-racer-car-designer-dead-89\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&amp;gadget=a&amp;resize_h=100&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fa.espncdn.com%2Fphoto%2F2012%2F0511%2Frpm_g_shelby11_300.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-txt\">Carroll Shelby, the legendary car designer and champion auto racer who built the fabled Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford&#039;s Mustang and Chrysler&#039;s Viper, has died. He was 89&#8230;.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-backlink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/110201780316922068503\/posts\/37SQmaRy9gc\" target=\"_blank\">This was posted on Google+&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H4>Related Awesome<\/H4><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The Case for Dropping the WWW From URLs in Advertising\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/dropping-www\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Case for Dropping the WWW From URLs in Advertising<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Kogan Imposes World&#8217;s First Internet Explorer 7 Tax\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/kogan-internet-explorer-7-tax\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Kogan Imposes World&#8217;s First Internet Explorer 7 Tax<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Clipboard: Not Just Another Pinterest Clone\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/clipboard-not-pinterest-clone\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Clipboard: Not Just Another Pinterest Clone<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R.I.P. 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